Now if you read through this in Verse 7, the first angel sounded: hail and fire followed, mingled with blood. It sounds like Egypt and the exodus doesn't it? And they were thrown to the earth, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all the grass was burned up. So what He's saying is: globally, an impact and judgement on the vegetation and food supply. Look at the next one, second trumpet. It says the second angel sounded: something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea, a third of the sea became blood. A third of the living creatures in the sea died, a third of the ships were destroyed - so a judgement on trade, and on food supplies. These are all natural things. Then the third trumpet: The third trumpet sounded, great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, fell on a third of the rivers, and on the springs of water. It was Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, or bitter. Many died from the water because it was made bitter - water supplies.
The fourth trumpet: The heavens were struck. The fourth angel sounded, a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, a third of the stars, a third of them were darkened. A third of the day did not shine, and likewise the night. So you notice there cosmic disturbances, perhaps meteor showers. Who knows what it all is. I don't understand what it all means, but I know when it happens, you know that's what that meant. That's how prophecies seem to be. Now you notice this is not hidden in a corner, this is global. This is on TV all over the world. This is everywhere. This is more impacting than all the disaster movies you've ever seen. This is the real thing. The others were imagining what could be, so you've seen the last few years, these disaster movies, and there's been an increase in temperature of the earth, there's been the sun blocked out, there's been cosmic showers. There's been all kinds of dilemmas come to the earth, and it's all Hollywood imagining it, but often Hollywood's imagination is not so far off sometimes reality, it eventually becomes reality.
Anyway, this is what the Bible says will happen, and you think well that's enough, we've had enough. We'll all repent then. No, no, no, there's a bit more to come, two more. He says the fifth angel sounded, I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth. To him was given the keys to the bottomless pit, and he opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. So the sun and air were darkened because of the smoke. Out of the smoke locusts, to them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power, and they tormented people so they wanted to die. So here's the fifth thing that'll happen; there'll be an unleashing of demonic activity in the earth like you've never seen before. Church doesn't even, half of it doesn't even believe in deliverance. Want to read Revelation, they're all going to be released in a massive way at the end times, a massive way at the end times. You think well and people seek to die it says. In other words, suicide and distress and hopelessness, despair will abound in the earth. These are the things God is bringing on the earth before He comes and sets everything right, overthrows all governments, and establishes His own government in the earth. It's amazing to see these things.
Look what else it says. It says in Verse 11, there's another thing happen there and it says, Verse 13, the sixth angel sounded: I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar - that's the incense altar. This is released because of intercessory prayer - saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates. And they were released, they were prepared for that hour and day and month and year, and were released to kill a third of mankind. Now that's pretty serious isn't it? Perhaps you have another Bible. Perhaps you don't like to read this. The Bible says: blessed are those who read the Book, and do the things in the Book. Now so you as a believer, you can look at the things happening in the earth and say hey, you ain't seen nothing yet, you want to see what God's about to do! Want get onside with Him, this is going to be something else. It's not going to be hidden. Getting the idea?